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I again recommend you to look up the word "уступать" in a russian explanatory dictionary of that time.

Ahhhh, does it matter? I don't need neither Alaska nor Hawaii.

I quit the thread.

to cede is not to sell.

In the Russianversion of the treaty it is "уступать".

Если взять толковый словарь того времени, то "уступать" значит: "давать на время, давать в аренду", но не...